@nixCraft “And, Lo!, Microsoft begat Explorer and Mozilla begat Firefox, and they were good enough. KDE begat KHTML, and KHTML begat Konqueror, and they were good. And Apple did take KHTML and begat WebKit and Safari, and Safari was good. And Google did take WebKit and begat Chrome, and Chrome was good. And Microsoft then slaid Explorer to take WebKit, and thus begat Edge. And Chrome and Edge did multiply, and it was a time of much sadness and RAM usage…”
@nixCraft To be fair Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi are using the base code but are all degoogling and recoding around the base parts to the point they have all agreed to work around Google and Chromium's Manifest V2 changes that will block out Ad Blockers, and are forking farther from Chromium rather than just skinning it like other early browsers did. Hell Brave and Vivaldi are taking strong stances on Privacy and Encryption against Google Services (some are WIP though).
But we really need more than two web platforms for browsers and more adoption of some of Firefox's Privacy and Security features. This Chromium Monoculture that can massively help the launch of new browsers will not be healthy in the long run.
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